Lydia's Birthday Party

Lydia was able to invite a couple friends over to join us in celebrating her birthday. One friend is a local friend that she often plays with outside. The other friend and her family just moved here from Texas. The kids had a great time playing and then we had pizza, dumplings and M&M cookie cake - yummy!

Lydia's Birthday

September 17th we celebrated Lydia's second birthday. We had a fun day as a family! We opened presents, rode a bus to the city center where we ate at McDs and played in the city square. It is hard to believe that Lydia is growing up so fast!

Julia 3 months

Here are some recent pics of Julia.  She is growing up so fast!  She loves to smile and giggle and she just got her first tooth!

What a good big brother and sister

Jacob and Lydia really love Julia so much.  They do a great job of being gentle with her and they get so excited when they get her to smile or talk.

Jacob's cultural adaptations

Jacob is doing very well at adapting to the culture here.  He loves to use chopsticks and can even use them to eat western food!  He also loves making new friends and here you can see him at a birthday party with one of his friends.

Lydia and Julia's new clothes

Some friends of ours gave the girls these traditional clothes as gifts.  I don't know if you can tell or not but Julia's outfit doesn't have a back, it simply ties around the back to stay on.  A couple days after we were given these outfits I saw a 3 or 4 year old boy wearing something similar to what Julia has on, the only difference was he didn't have anything on underneath!

The things Lydia wears!

I feel like I am always posting pictures about funny things that Lydia is wearing but she always manages to find something new to try on!